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Minisauras: A Github action to minify CSS and JS files

πŸ‘‹ Hi Everyone,

We are TeamTigers, a group of undergrad students studying Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering. And here is our submission for #ActionsHackathon.

Our Workflow

Minisauras is an open-source CI/CD automation tool based on GitHub Actions that pulls all the desired JavaScript and CSS files from your base branch, minify them and creates a pull-request with a new branch.

How it works

  • Traverse through a given directory (if not provided, traverse from root), finds all the JavaScript & CSS files within it and it's sub-directories.
  • Afterwards, Minisauras minify all those files.
  • Finally, it creates a new branch in your repository, push those changes and creates a pull request that can be merged in your base branch.

Submission Category:

We are submitting this action in following categories:

πŸ“Œ DIY Deployments (Primary)
πŸ“Œ Wacky Wildcards (Secondary)

Yaml File or Link to Code

Users' Guideline

  • Create a personal access token.
  • Then setup a secret using that personal access token in your desired repository.
  • Create a workflow. For example: main.yml under (.github/workflows) directory.
  • In the workflow, provide following things:
    • Personal access token. For example: secrets.TOKEN if you set your secret with a name 'TOKEN'.
    • The desired directory in which you want to minify CSS and JS files. For example: './' for root and 'src/' for src directory.
- name: minisauras
  uses: TeamTigers/minisauras@v2.0.0
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}
  with:
    directory: 'src/' # all files under 'src' directory
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Minisauras Repository :

GitHub logo TeamTigers / minisauras

An open-source CI/CD automation tool based on :octocat: GitHub Actions that pulls all the JavaScript and CSS files from your base branch, minify them and creates a pull-request with a new branch.

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Minisauras πŸŽ‰

Minisauras is an open-source CI/CD automation tool based on :octocat: GitHub Actions that pulls all the JavaScript and CSS files from your base branch, minify them and creates a pull-request with a new branch.

How it works

  • Traverse through a given directory (if not provided, traverse from root), finds all the JavaScript & CSS files within it and it's sub-directories.
  • Afterwards, Minisauras minify all those files.
  • Finally, it creates a new branch in your repository, push those changes and creates a pull request that can be merged in your base branch.

Usage

  • Create a personal access token.
  • Then setup a secret using that personal access token in your desired repository.
  • Create a workflow. For example: main.yml under (.github/workflows) directory.
  • In the workflow, provide following things
    • Personal access token. For example: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }} if you set your secret with a name 'TOKEN'.
    • The desired directory in which you…

Additional Resources / Info

πŸ’‘ Example and output

Here is an example repository that shows the usage of GitHub Action minisauras. You can see there, how minisauras has minified all the CSS & JS files of this repository and sent a Pull Request over there.

GitHub logo TeamTigers / minisauras-example

An example repository to show how to use @TeamTigers/minisauras in a repository.

Below is a pull request sent by Minisauras with changes in some CSS and JavaScript files:

cat-pr

Additionally, in the GitHub Action's console you will see the confirmation of pull request sent by Minisauras.

Our journey πŸ€—

It was a fun participating in GitHub Actions Hackathon. Usually in academic projects we develop Web or Mobile applications. We've participated in so many national & international Hackathons too. But in #ActionsHackathon we did something really new !!! We've faced so many challenges during the development period. Below is our 'Action Development Life Cycle' (ADLC). Obviously, this journey isn't over yet. We'll still be maintaining this project after the hackathon. So, you can submit issues for improvements and new feature requests at anytime.

Timeline

Here are some really good resources that helped us building Minisauras:

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ender minyard

This is great.

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Shunjid Rahman Showrov

Glad you liked πŸ˜„ πŸŽ‰

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Maulik

Awesome

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Shunjid Rahman Showrov

Thank you so much, Maulik πŸ˜„. You may check our source code here. We would love to hear more from you.

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Prafulla Raichurkar

This is awesome 😁

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Shunjid Rahman Showrov

Thanks a lot @Prafulla. We're glad you liked it. Best of luck. πŸ˜„ πŸŽ‰

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Prafulla Raichurkar

Best of luck πŸŽ‰

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Md.Rafiuzzaman Khan πŸ‡§πŸ‡©

Cool idea! Keep it up πŸ‡§πŸ‡©

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Shunjid Rahman Showrov

Glad you liked it. You may check our source code here. We would love to hear more from you. πŸ˜„

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Mizanur Rahman Ashiq

Nice Idea 😳

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Shunjid Rahman Showrov

Thank you so much 😊

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Mohsin Khan Shuvo

I like it.

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Shunjid Rahman Showrov

We're glad you liked. We would like to hear more about your experience of using Minisauras.

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Md. Shaharia Chowdhury

great brothers !! keep it up :)

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Shunjid Rahman Showrov

Thank you so much. You can check our source code too πŸ˜„.

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Mir Anupam Hossain Akib

Wow 😍

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Md Zinnatul Islam Morol

Thank you so much 😊

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Andrew Baisden

Wow nice good job creating this.

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Shunjid Rahman Showrov

Thank you so much. We're glad you loved it πŸ˜„

thanks

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Raton Biswas

Nice Job my big brothers. Another winning project.❀

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Shunjid Rahman Showrov

Thanks for you great compliment, Raton 😊
thanks